Parents’ gesture adaptations to children with autism spectrum disorder

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Yoshida, Hanako Cirino, Paul Mire, Sarah S. Burling, Joseph M. Lee, Sunbok
Copyright Year	2019
Description	The present study focused on parents’ social cue use in relation to young children's attention. Participants were ten parent–child dyads; all children were 36 to 60 months old and were either typically developing (TD) or were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children wore a head-mounted camera that recorded the proximate child view while their parent played with them. The study compared the following between the TD and ASD groups: (a) frequency of parent's gesture use; (b) parents’ monitoring of their child's face; and (c) how children looked at parents’ gestures. Results from Bayesian estimation indicated that, compared to the TD group, parents of children with ASD produced more gestures, more closely monitored their children's faces, and provided more scaffolding for their children's visual experiences. Our findings suggest the importance of further investigating parents’ visual and gestural scaffolding as a potential developmental mechanism for children's early learning, including for children with ASD.
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Ending Page	224
Page Count	20
Starting Page	205
ISSN	03050009
e-ISSN	14697602
DOI	10.1017/s0305000919000497
Journal	Journal of Child Language
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	47
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2020-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal of Child Language Special Education Autism Spectrum Disorder (asd)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Developmental and Educational Psychology Linguistics and Language